Give Away the Writing, Keep the Reading
Linus Torvalds vibe-coded the visualizer and hand-wrote the audio math. One repository, the whole argument — writing code was never the scarce skill.
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Intermittent Competence Looks Like Coverage
My reviewer caught a deleted flush call three times out of three, and said nothing about eight of thirteen removals in any run. A check that works a quarter of the time doesn't present as a gap. It presents as a feature.
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A Big Rule Set Is an Attention Problem
Sixteen minutes and sixteen dollars to surface four low-severity nits, most of it spent scanning for rules rather than judging code. A corpus can fit the context window and still overflow the model's attention.
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Fidelity Was a Vibe, Cost Was a Number
I told the agent fidelity came first. It optimised for cost anyway, for an embarrassing reason — cost had an estimator and a guardrail, and fidelity had a sentence.
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Noticing Is Cheap, Judgment Is Scarce
The goal was never a cheaper reviewer. It was finding everything that is really there while posting nothing that isn't — and that objective, not the budget, is what forced the pipeline apart.
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The Productivity Mirage
Sixteen experienced developers finished 19% slower with AI and believed they were 20% faster. The feeling of a fast session tracks fluency, not distance.
